Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Romania and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing K-Klass to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Dennis Brown. All the underground hits.
All Bootsy's Rubber Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a MDC record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sällskapet,
Joe Smooth,
Q and Not U,
The Velvet Underground,
The Remains,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Cramps,
The Grass Roots,
The Detroit Cobras,
Chris Corsano,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
David Bowie,
Deepchord,
Agitation Free,
Shuggie Otis,
cv313,
Hasil Adkins,
The Associates,
Todd Terry,
The Litter,
Alton Ellis,
Kerrie Biddell,
DJ Sneak,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Young Rascals,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Busters,
Max Romeo,
Al Stewart,
Yaz,
Television Personalities,
Swell Maps,
Sister Nancy,
LL Cool J,
Byron Stingily,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Man Eating Sloth,
John Foxx,
Bill Wells,
Yusef Lateef,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Soul II Soul,
The Star Department,
Dennis Brown,
Porter Ricks,
The Wake,
Scott Walker,
Index,
Subhumans,
Skaos,
The Last Poets,
Glenn Branca,
The Flesh Eaters,
Magazine,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Ronan,
Sound Behaviour,
Adolescents, Adolescents, Adolescents, Adolescents.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.